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Bugonia movie review: worst contact (London Film Festival 2025)

Fri, Oct 24, 2025
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Grimly hilarious, this mashup of black comedy, social commentary, suspense, and horror is sharp and stinging, with a haunting gut punch of a finale… and it’s Yorgos Lanthimos’s most accessible film yet.

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One Battle After Another movie review: où est la résistance?

Thu, Sep 25, 2025
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Brash, chaotic, full of bleak humor and bitter irony. With blockbuster vibes over an anarchic indie heart, it’s both earnest and winking. Outstanding in-flight entertainment for our societal freefall.

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Sew Torn movie review: patchwork pastiche

Fri, Jun 20, 2025
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The quirks of this slightly fantastical black-comedy crime thriller are many, varied, and messily disjointed. But there’s a delicious oddness to its unpredictability and its spin on familiar tropes.

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Fountain of Youth movie review: raiders of the lost art

Fri, Jun 06, 2025
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Hollywood has lost the ability to buckle swash. Guy Ritchie, shamelessly stealing from Indiana Jones, gives us a charmless treasure hunt that feels honed by corporate focus groups and cinematic SEO.

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Final Destination: Bloodlines review: the curse of fatal death

Tue, May 20, 2025
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The dorm-room philosophy of the 25-year-old series is still pondering how wild it is that we all die, how fragile our meatbag bodies are. Now with gory dismemberments and squishy impalements in IMAX!

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When I’m Ready movie review: it’s the end of the world, and you’d barely know it

Thu, Feb 27, 2025
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Pretty young people are sad about the end of everything, but there’s no urgency and little emotional authenticity to any of it. We’ve seen this before, pulled off with far more affecting feeling.

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Nightbitch movie review: live, bark, love

Wed, Dec 04, 2024
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Replaces the novel’s rage with gentle comedy, biting its tongue and undercutting its protagonist. Still, mundane truths about women’s realities that rarely get public airings are on welcome display.

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Your Monster movie review: embrace the beast

Wed, Oct 23, 2024
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Sure, the humor may be bitter, the horror may be audacious, and the overriding genre may be “anti-romance.” But this hugely original, grimly delightful howl of feminine rage is actually kinda sweet.

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Lee movie review: the things she saw, and the way she saw them

Wed, Sep 25, 2024
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It barely scratches the surface of the enormous audacity of WWII photographer Lee Miller, but still this is an important movie. It’s also joyous filmmaking, with terrific performances all around.

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Twisters movie review: no winds of change blowing here

Mon, Aug 05, 2024
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Hooray for Glen Powell’s star rising, but this absurdly coy movie — is it a sequel? a remake? — is a cowardly, reckless missed opportunity: it’s deeply baffling that it omits any hint of global warming.

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